Henry Frankenstein: Look, it's moving! It's alive. It's alive. It's alive. It's moving. It's alive! It's alive! It's alive! It's alive! IT'S ALIVE! In the name of God, now I know what it's like to BE God!
Frankenstein (1931)
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Directed by: James Whale
Starring: Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, Colin Clive, John Boles
Continuity mistake: When Fritz is trying to steal a brain, he gets scared by a skeleton, which he grabs down, causing it to bounce up and down (since it is hanging from a hook up on the ceiling). But in the next shot, the skeleton is hardly moving. Yet when Fritz realizes he has dropped the brain, the skeleton is bouncing up and down again. (00:08:40)
Trivia: In the original ending, Henry Frankenstein dies or is killed before the monster throws him off the windmill.
Question: Why is Henry's last name "Frankenstein" in this film and it's first sequel, "Bride of Frankenstein", but the last name is changed to "Von Frankenstein" in the second sequel, "Son of Frankenstein"?
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Answer: By the third film, the original "Baron Frankenstein," played by Frederick Kerr is supposed to have died. Therefore, his son Henry had inherited the title of "Baron Frankenstein," and as part of Germanic aristocratic inheritance this automatically places a "von" between the Christian name and Surname of the holder. This in turn has happened when Henry died and Wolf took up the Baronetcy.
David Mercier